Parks
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Event: Inspiring Ideas for Trees in Public Spaces
Our friends at Park People are co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow evening to show how cities around the world have been using trees as unique design features...
By Shawn Micallef -
Dusk Dances brings Withrow Park to life
This week, I took part in Dusk Dances at Withrow Park, a Toronto-based outdoor dance festival that presents diverse choreographic works in city parks...
By Claire Nelischer -
Cities for People: In the Galleria Mall’s shadow, new urban amenities for the Wallace-Emerson neighbourhood
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD U’s Cities for People workshop. This post & design intervention is by Julie Forand, Dakota...
By Shawn Micallef -
Cities for people: reconnecting young and old in Davisville Village by design
This is part of a series of posts by students in OCAD U’s Cities for People workshop. This post & design intervention is by Yaw Asante, Lorene Casiez...
By Shawn Micallef -
Sunday on the Island 1: Slippery Names, Soft Sands.
This is the first of some posts for Spacing Toronto exploring the Toronto Islands as the potent place that they are to our city. New posts will go up on...
By Erica Yudelman -
Park People’s 2nd Annual Park Summit This Saturday
For as long as I’ve been paying attention, parks have been places where community engagement and stewardship intersect (and sometimes collide) with...
By Ian Malczewski -
STREET SCENE: Friends of the Park
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
By Jerry Waese -
Charred High Park playground still a bastion of community camaraderie
I think it must have been grade five, when, one particularly vivid afternoon, a group of gregarious grown-ups walked into my classroom at High Park...
By Emma Feltes -
NO MEAN CITY: Toronto Urban Design Awards
Cross-posted from No Mean City, Alex’s personal blog on architecture A night about design, and it turned into a civic pep rally. That was the...
By Alex Bozikovic -
Impressed by Doug Ford’s backroom vision for the Toronto Port Lands? Take a look at Mayor Bert Xanadu’s vision for the Toronto Islands: “The Islands in my Brain.”
EDITOR: It’s circa 1973. Bert Xanadu is the Mayor of Toronto and owner of the Imperial Six cinemas on Yonge Street. Mayor Xanadu has been governing...
By Mayor Bert Xanadu -
Park City: Hidden under a highway
Toronto is often called ‘a city within a park,’ a nickname which not only conjures a pretty picture but is a pretty good goal for any city. In some ways...
By Bronwyn Clement -
Park City: At the water’s edge
Toronto is often called ‘a city within a park,’ a nickname which not only conjures a pretty picture but is a pretty good goal for any city. In some ways...
By Bronwyn Clement